Re: Toshiba Portege R835, getting suspend working on Ubuntu 10.10.

Originally Posted by regiomontanus

I would love a follow-up once you get the computer and get it running!

I got mine: Toshiba Satellite R830-136 with 128GB SSD, now running Ubuntu 11.04 natty narwhal, everything seems to be working out of the box:
- integrated Display
- sound
- wifi
- ethernet 1GB
- webcam
- trackpad with 2 finger-scrolling
- Fn-xx keys for sound, etc.
The battery time is amazing, and the SSD makes that laptop very fast (that way I can confirm that the bottleneck usually is the HDD).

VGA and HDMI: not working out of the box with Unity. I can't get it to work with external VGA nor HDMI at full external display resolution (I have a full-HD 1920x1080 monitor). I think this is a bug in sandy bridge driver for Compiz or whatsoever, Ubuntu did not integrate the latest intel drivers yet.If I start the session with "Classic (no effects)", VGA/HDMI output is perfect.

One bad thing: external display:

Last edited by svast; May 22nd, 2011 at 05:08 PM.
Reason: news for external display

Re: Toshiba Portege R835, getting suspend working on Ubuntu

On 11.04, Toshiba Portege R835-P50X (Core i3 processor for the longer battery life, rather than the zippier i5) with 32GB SSD, which is fine - 16GB for the distro, 16GB for virtualbox vdi files like running Win7 inside.

All hardware working except USB 3.0 not at all, WD MyBook 3TB or the 4-port hub I bought. USB 2 is fine.

Routinely get 8 hours of battery life and boot time is 4-5 seconds.

Am looking around for a solution - might be the "fix" they had to make to get suspend working.

Re: Toshiba Portege R835, getting suspend working on Ubuntu 10.10.

I am planning to buy Toshiba Portege R835-P56X. I would love to know whether anyone has used Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on this machine ? Has all the compatibility issues with Ubuntu (freezing and fan speed problems) been finally solved ?

Re: Toshiba Portege R835, getting suspend working on Ubuntu 10.10.

Originally Posted by svast

I got mine: Toshiba Satellite R830-136 with 128GB SSD, now running Ubuntu 11.04 natty narwhal, everything seems to be working out of the box:
- integrated Display
- sound
- wifi
- ethernet 1GB
- webcam
- trackpad with 2 finger-scrolling
- Fn-xx keys for sound, etc.
The battery time is amazing, and the SSD makes that laptop very fast (that way I can confirm that the bottleneck usually is the HDD).

VGA and HDMI: not working out of the box with Unity. I can't get it to work with external VGA nor HDMI at full external display resolution (I have a full-HD 1920x1080 monitor). I think this is a bug in sandy bridge driver for Compiz or whatsoever, Ubuntu did not integrate the latest intel drivers yet.If I start the session with "Classic (no effects)", VGA/HDMI output is perfect.

One bad thing: external display:

I'm running a portege R835 P50X and I cant get dvd to work, usb either or wifi sort of I'm running in virtual box so somehow windows hands over the wifi as a hard line anyone have any idea why the dvd isn't working tho?